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"And the statues?"

"They-such things can't be accomplished without some little blunder-Labaja thinks so, too"

"Did they escape you?"

"Only one I myself helped to smash the other, which stood in the workrooold and ivory are on the ship We had horrible ith the statue which stood in the rooreat monster carefully into the studio that fronts upon the water But probably it is still standing there, if the thing is not already--just see how the fla upward!--if it is not already burned with the house"

"What a misfortune!" Ledscha reproachfully exclaimed

"It could not be helped," the boy protested "People fro, furious fellow-killed our Loule and the fierce Judas Now he has to pay for it Little Chareb threw the black powder into his eyes, while Hanno himself thrust the torch in his face"

"And Bias, the blackbeard's slave?"

"I don't know Oh, yes! Wounded, I believe, on board the ship"

Meanwhile the lad, a precocious fourteen-year-old cabin-boy from the Hydra, pointed to the boat which lay ready, and took Ledscha's bundle in his hand; but she sprang into the light skiff before him and ordered it to be rowed to the Owl's Nest, where she ood-bye The cabin-boy, however, declared positively that the conal two black sailors urged it with swift oar strokes toward the northwest, to Satabus's ship Hanno wished to receive his bride as a wife from his father's hand

Ledscha had not insisted upon the fulfilment of her desire, but as the boat passed the Pelican Island her gaze rested on the lustreless waning disk of thewhich she had vainly waited here for Hermon, and a triumphant smile hovered around her lips; but soon the heavy eyebrows of the girl as thus leaving her hoain fancied she sahere the antic, hideous spider She banished the illusion by speaking to the boy--spiders in thethe east, reer, she must yet shed